Humor genre books (33)


1.
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl : Fiction by Mona Awad EN

Rating: 3     14 Votes
Description:
“Stunning . . . As you watch Lizzie navigate fraught relationships—with food, men, girlfriends, her parents and even with herself—you’ll want to grab a friend and say: ‘Whoa. This. Exactly.’” —Washington Post A “hilarious, heartbreaking book” (People) from the author of Bunny Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Atlantic, Time Out New York, and The Globe and Mail Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks—even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. She starts dating guys online, but she’s afraid to... continue
Genre Humor
Recommended: 07 May 2023

2.

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman EN

Rating: 4     11 Votes
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
When a new, chatty, young couple and their two daughters move in next door, Ove's well-ordered, solitary world turns upside down.
Recommended: 06 Mar 2022

3.
A Monk Swimming : A Memoir

A Monk Swimming : A Memoir by Malachy McCourt EN

Rating: 3     7 Votes
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
The memoirs of Malachy McCourt who left a childhood of poverty in Ireland to live in New York where he carved out a colourful career as a writer and actor - The story of his early life was told in Angela's ashes, by his brother Frank McCourt.

4.

Anxious People by Frederik Backman EN

Rating: 4     6 Votes
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Book of the Week, Book of the Month Club selection, and Best of Fall in Good Housekeeping, PopSugar, The Washington Post, New York Post, Shondaland, CNN, and more! “[A] quirky, big-hearted novel…Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure.” —People From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming, poignant novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have mor... continue
Recommended: 24 Apr 2022

5.

Bunny by Mona Awad EN

Rating: 3.6     19 Votes
Description:
The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls who seem to move and speak as one "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing co... continue
Recommended: 21 Jul 2022

6.

Chilean Poet : A Novel by Alejandro Zambra EN

Rating: 4     2 Votes
Description:
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker “A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent…[Chilean Poet] broadens the author’s scope and quite likely his international reputation.” —Los Angeles Times “Zambra's books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence level, is in a world all his own.” —Juan Vidal, NPR.org A writer of “startling talent” (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra returns with his most substantial work yet: a story of fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and what it means to make a family After a chanc... continue
Genre Humor
Recommended: 07 Apr 2022

7.
Crazy Rich Asians

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan EN

Rating: 3     2 Votes
Country: Asia / Singapore flag Singapore
Description:
Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
Recommended: 16 Apr 2023

8.
De 100-jarige man die uit het raam klom en verdween

De 100-jarige man die uit het raam klom en verdween by Jonas Jonasson NL

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Op zijn honderdste verjaardag ontvlucht een man het door hem zo gehate bejaardencentrum en ontvreemdt bij het busstation een zware koffer die gevuld blijkt te zijn met zwart geld.
Genre Humor
Recommended: 05 Dec 2022

9.
De helaasheid der dingen

De helaasheid der dingen by Dimitri Verhulst NL

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Genre Humor
Recommended: 18 Nov 2022

10.
De held van station Friedrichstrasse

De held van station Friedrichstrasse by Maxim Leo NL

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Wanneer de niet zo succesvolle videotheekeigenaar Michael Hartung bezoek krijgt van een journalist verandert zijn leven op slag. Uit Stasi-rapporten zou blijken dat Michael in 1983 als seinwachter verantwoordelijk moet zijn geweest voor een spectaculaire massavlucht uit de ddr, waarbij 127 mensen via station Friedrichstrasse in het Westen terechtkwamen. Michael ontkent aanvankelijk, maar na een behoorlijke vergoeding en een paar biertjes is hij bereid om het verhaal te bevestigen. Hij is tenslotte nog nooit belangrijk geweest, nog nooit een held. Niet veel later voelt het leven, met alle media... continue
Genre Humor
Recommended: 23 Nov 2022


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